Nazareth Schools Make Committee Assignments

January 11, 1990|by KAREN FINNEGAN, The Morning Call

Nazareth Area School Board President George Seifert announced committee assignments for the new year during a recent board meeting.

The following have been named to committees: athletic -- William Evans, chairman, and Geary Gum and Francis Stannard; cafeteria/food service -- William Steckel, chairman, and Dr. Michael Davis and George Seifert; cultural arts -- Richard Sell, chairman, and Dale Kocher and William Steckel; personnel -- Davis, chairman, and Evans and Kocher; transportation -- Gum, chairman, and Stannard and Steckel; tuition -- Darrell Crook, chairman, and Evans and Gum, and EPED (extra pay for extra duty) -- Crook, Evans, Sell, Claude Shappelle, assistant superintendent, and three teachers to be named.

Crook will serve as the board's representative to Northampton Community College, with Davis as alternate. Seifert and Gum will serve on the operating committee of Eastern Northampton County Vocational-Technical School, and Davis will be the representative to Colonial Northampton Intermediate Unit 20. Gum will be the representative to the Employee Benefit Trust of Eastern Pennsylvania, with Steckel as alternate. Steckel also will serve as the liaison with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association on legislation.

The board appointed Joseph Silimperi of Lower Nazareth Township and a recent graduate of Bloomsburg University as junior high assistant varsity coach. His duties began immediately. Bushkill School teacher Dennis Hahn was granted a sabbatical leave for the second half of this school year to pursue his master's degree at East Stroudsburg University, and senior high business education teacher Julia Morris was granted a maternity leave beginning April 9. Kathleen Zulick of Nazareth was appointed as a part-time health office assistant.

District Superintendent John Jenkins announced that the district's elementary schools had near-perfect attendance for parent-teacher conferences held last month and excellent attendance in the secondary schools. With 3,084 students in the district, parents showed up for 2,951 conferences. "There is no way to serve as an educational institution without the support of the family," said Jenkins.

The board and audience was treated to homemade holiday cookies from the wife of board President George Seifert and a holiday musical medley from the Woodwind Ensemble, under the direction of William Boandl.